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- {geni:occupation} Queen of England, Scotland and Ireland, Drottning i England 1702-14, 17 children, Princess & Queen of England, Princess Consort of Denmark, Scotland and Ireland (1702 - 1714)
{geni:about_me} *Anne Princess of Great Britain
*Queen of England, Scotland and Ireland on 8 March 1702.
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*'''Queen of England, Scotland and Ireland''' 1702-1714 '''Predecessor:''' [http://www.geni.com/profile/index/6000000006953209184 William III] '''Successor:''' [http://www.geni.com/profile/index/4555799 George I]
*'''Wikipedia:''' [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anne_of_Great_Britain English]
- Last of the House of Stuarts. Had one son who died suddenly and unexpectedly at the age of eleven. Upon autopsy it was dicovered that the cause of death was, hydrocephalus.
- Anne (1665-1714), queen of Great Britain and Ireland (1702-14), the last
British sovereign of the house of Stuart. Born in London on February 6,
1665, she was the second daughter of King James II. Her mother was James's
first wife, Anne Hyde (1637-71). In 1683 she was married to Prince George
of Denmark (1653-1708). Although her father converted to Roman Catholicism
in 1672, Anne remained Protestant and acquiesced in James's overthrow by
the anti-Roman Catholic Glorious Revolution of 1688, which brought her
sister Mary and Mary's husband, William of Orange, to the throne. Becoming
queen on William's death in 1702, Anne restored to favor John Churchill,
who had been disgraced by her predecessor, making him duke of Marlborough
and captain-general of the army. Marlborough won a series of victories
over the French in the War of the Spanish Succession (1701-14, known in
America as Queen Anne's War), and he and his wife, Sarah (1660-1744), had
great influence over the queen in the early years of her reign.
Devoted to the Church of England, Anne was inclined to favor the
pro-church Tory faction rather than its Whig opponents, but, influenced by
the Marlboroughs and Lord Treasurer Sidney Godolphin, earl of Godolphin
(1645-1712), she at first excluded the Tories from office. Later, however,
her friendship with the Marlboroughs cooled, and in 1710 she took
advantage of popular dissatisfaction with the Whigs to remove Godolphin;
Marlborough was dismissed the following year. During Queen Anne's reign
the kingdoms of England and Scotland were united (1707). She died in
London on August 1, 1714, and, having no surviving children, was succeeded
by her German cousin, George, elector of Hannover, as King George I of
Great Britain.
- ACCEDED 3/8/1702 (CROWNED WESTMINSTER); RULED FROM 1702-1714; HAD AT LEAST 18
CHILDREN BORN STILLBORN OR WHO DIED IN INFANCY
- Anne, 1665-1714, queen of England, Scotland, and Ireland (1702-7), later queen of Great Britain and Ireland (1707-14), daughter of James II and Anne Hyde; successor to William III. Reared as a Protestant and married (1683) to Prince George of Denmark (d. 1708), she was not close to her Catholic father and acquiesced in the Glorious Revolution (1688) which put William III and her sister, Mary II, on the throne. With them she was soon on bad terms because of private animosities, partially caused by AnneXs favorite. This woman was her attendant and intimate friend from girlhood, Sarah Jennings, who had married John Churchill (later 1st duke of Marlborough) and who was to exercise great influence in AnneXs private and public life. They addressed each other as Mrs. Morley (Anne) and Mrs. Freeman (Sarah) to avoid obligations of rank. Of AnneXs many children the only one to live much beyond babyhood - the duke ofGloucester - died at the age of 11 in 1700. Since neither she nor William had surviving children and support for her exiled Catholic half brother rose and fell in Great Britain, the question of succession continued vexed after the Act of Settlement (1701) and after AnneXs accession. The last Stuart ruler, she was the first to rule over Great Britain, which was created when the Act of Union joined Scotland and England in 1707. Her reign, like that of William III, was one of transition to parliamentary government; Anne was, for example, the last English monarch to exercise (1707) the royal veto. Domestic and foreign affairs alike were dominated by the War of the Spanish Succession, called Queen AnneXs War in America. On the continent the duke of Marlborough won glory for English arms. At home the costs of the fighting were an issue between the Tories, who were cool to the war, and the Whigs, who favored it. Party lines were slowly hardening, but party government and ministerial responsibility were not yet established; intrigues and the favor of the queen still made and unmade cabinets, though public opinion and elections did have increasing influence. Thus it was at least partly through the pressure of the Marlboroughs that Anne was induced, despite her Tory sympathies, to oust Tory ministers in favor of Whigs. The Marlboroughs forced the dismissal of Robert Harley in 1708, though the scolding duchess had already lost much of her power to AnneXs new favorite, the quiet Abigail Masham, kinswoman and friend of Harley. When the unpopularity of the war and the furor over the prosecution of Henry Sacheverell showed the power of the Tories (who won the elections of 1710) and made the move feasible, Anne recalled Harley to power, and the Marlboroughs were dismissed. Harley, created earl of Oxford, was political leader until 1714, when he was replaced by his Tory colleague and rival, Viscount Bolingbroke. Soon afterward thte queen died, and, Jacobite plans having failed, she was succeeded by George I of the house of Hanover. Queen Anne was a dull, stubborn, but conscientious woman devoted to the Church of England and within it to the High Church party. She supported the act (1711) against "occasional conformity" and the Schism Act (1714), both directed against dissenters and both repealed in 1718. She also created a trust fund called Queen AnneXs Bounty for poor clerical livings. Her reign also saw developments in the intellectual awakening that produced such thinkers as George Berkeley and SirIsaac Newton and such scholars and writers as Richard Bentley, Swift, Pope, Addison, Steele and Defoe. The British press grew rapidly as a political instrument. Sir Christopher Wren and Sir John Vanbrugh were at the same time setting in stone and brick the rich elegance that was perhaps the most attractive aspect of life and society under Queen Anne. See biography by M. R. Hopkinson (1934); G. M. Trevelyan, England under Queen Anne (3 vols., 1930-34); G. N. Clark, The Later Stuarts (1934). [The Illustrated Columbia Encyclopedia, 3rd ed., 1969]
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1665 - 1714 (49 år)
